BY SARAH PEART & SEAN WALSH
MELBOURNE — In scenes reminiscent of the police violence at the S11 protests last September, 250 police officers, including 10 on horseback, assaulted and dispersed a crowd of several hundred protesters peacefully
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The US Central Intelligence Agency worked in tandem with Pakistan in the 1980s to create the "monster" that is today Afghanistan's ruling Taliban, Selig Harrison from the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars said at a conference in London
BY JACQUIE MOON & RACHEL EVANS
MELBOURNE — Ten years after the original "D-Day" for action on the HIV/AIDS crisis, activists in the group QUEER have called a D-Day of their own for June 6.
The group, whose acronym stands for Queers United to
BY BRONWEN BEECHEY
The South Australian Liberal government believed that it was on a winner when it privatised the state's electricity supply. However, it now looks like the move will be a major factor in the government's defeat at the next state
Mothers' Day this year, again, was a bit of a horror. According to the commercialised tradition, it's a day when we are supposed to buy appliances, lingerie or flowers for mums who're overworked, underpaid and unrecognised.
Particularly revolting
SAN FRANCISCO — Consider the irony of two events that occurred a couple days apart last month. On May 23, the first Chinese American ever to be elected to the US Congress was denied entry to the Department of Energy offices in Washington, DC. The
Ruddock 'greeted'
NEWCASTLE — Federal immigration minister Phillip Ruddock attended a citizenship ceremony here on May 28. With only two hours notice, 20 protesters outside greeted the "Minister for Racism" outside the Town Hall. The
BY SEAN HEALY
A funny thing happened on the way to the third United Nations Conference on Least Developed Countries in Brussels: the representatives of the rich nations suddenly discovered that their restrictions on market access for poor
BY ROWAN CAHILL
A selective and mythologised account of the past draws young people to Anzac Day celebrations. The chief of the armed forces is the Australian of the Year. Parliament passes a bill enabling the military to be used domestically
BY JOHN GAUCI
SYDNEY — "East Timorese must ask themselves, why are we still divided? We can't go on holding other countries to blame", the new country's foreign minister Jose Ramos Horta told a public lecture at the University of New South Wales
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= Jails, private schools favoured in NSW budget
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private schools favoured in NSW budget
BY JENNY LONG
SYDNEY — NSW treasurer Michael Egan delivered the state
Socialist Alliance?
It is quite obvious that, due to media bias and reactionary politics, terms such as socialism, communism, anarchy, green and left have been effectively discredited in the minds of a lot of people.
The expression "Socialist
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